Hello, im christian fraser. Youre watching the context on bbc news. Electric car sales falter as a deadline for a ban on the sale of new Fossil Fuel Cars is extended. Natalie elphicke is the second conservative mp to defect to labour, in as many weeks. Her decision to defect was announced around 12pm just in time for sir keir starmer to bring it up at Prime Ministers questions. If one week a tory mp who is also a doctor says the Prime Minister cannot be trusted with the nhs and joins labour and the next week, the tory mp for dover on the front line of the small boats crisis says the Prime Minister cannot be trusted with our borders and joins labour, what is the point of this failed government staggering on . In a statement the dover mp said the conservatives under rishi sunak had become a by word for incompetence and division. This from someone who has long been preoccupied with the small boat crossings, many had thought her to be on the right of the conservative party. Dont trust labo
Strengthening into a category 2 storm. Well hear from the chief hurricane spags from noaa with the very latest on the mega storms coming up. But lets start with various stories that investors are paying close attention to. President trumps comments on the debt ceiling, the future of the fed, tax reform. Eamon javers still there at the white house and Steve Liesman has a look at gary cohms future and ylan mui has been monitoring the opposition thats growing to tax reform eamon, let start with you. I know they will kick you in that room. Whats the story just saw the press conferenced, very international focused press conference you saw the two leaders talking about the dispute between the israelis and palestinians, the dispute between qatar and the rest of the Gulf Community and dispute between north korea an rest of the world. The president expressing some cautious optimism about all of those disputes being resolved at some point in the future but no real specific tangible signs of prog